Phil Taylor breezed into the third round of the World Darts Championship last night with a convincing 4-0 victory over Justin Pipe. But it was not plain sailing for the 16-time winner who had to cope with a hostile crowd at the Alexandra Palace. The punters had turned against Pipe, […]
Daily Archives: December 24, 2017
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Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paolo Bandini and Lars Sivertsen for a festive edition of the podcast. Beginning with the Friday night kick-off, Max admits to disliking […]
How to watch the Pope’s Urbi et Orbi Christmas message Every Christmas the Pope delivers his Urbi et Orbi blessing from Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The message takes place at 12 noon local time (11am GMT) and is one of the most sacred addresses in the Catholic calendar. The […]
The White House continued to push back Sunday against a recent New York Times report that detailed offensive comments President Donald Trump allegedly made about immigrants from Nigeria and Haiti, with the legislative director disputing the remarks had ever been made. “The people in the meeting say those comments never […]
California’s Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties has eclipsed the 2003 Cedar Fire as the largest wildfire in Golden State history, at a whopping 273,400 acres. This puts the blaze’s burned area as larger than New York City, and nearly the equivalent of the sprawling city of Los […]
Colin Monteath/Hedgehog House/Minden Pictures By Alice Klein Get ready for an explosion of life. Next year, thousands of previously unknown microbes will be revealed. Bacteria and other microbes are all around us, but we know only about 1 per cent of them. The rest are “microbial dark matter”. It is […]
North Korea rejected tighter United Nations sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear expansion, describing the move as an “act of war” and vowing to avenge U.S. sympathizers who approved it. The U.S. “must abandon its hostile policy” toward North Korea, “learn to co-exist” and “wake up from its pipe-dream of […]
There has been 950 confirmed cases of hepatitis A across Europe since September 29, warned the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Twenty two countries were affected by the outbreak, including England, Wales, France, Germany and Italy. Since the outbreak started in June 2016, 3,813 cases of hepatitis […]